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Rubio: I’m okay with Karl Rove’s new “Conservative Victory Project”

I want to say a couple things in fairness. Karl Rove was one of my earliest supporters even when I was thirty points down in the polls he wrote me a check, he told people he was supporting me, he helped me in my race and I was thirty or forty points down. That’s important for fairness to say that. Ultimately, when I was the nominee American Crossroads came in to Florida and spent a lot of money on my candidacy and we’re grateful for that. But by the same token, I would not have been elected without Tea Party support. I would not have had a chance to even win the Primary without all these folks out there who rallied to the cause of defending our Constitution, limiting government and supporting our traditional values and I’m forever grateful for that as well. They both have a place in American politics. I think the concern that people have is that somehow people in Washington in the Beltway are going to decide that someone can’t get elected. That’s the argument they used against me and I don’t believe that’s Karl Rove’s intention but I think the concern that people have is that people from Washington are going to come in and decided ‘so and so’ is unelectable, somebody else is more electable we have to go with them and I think that’s a valid concern. There have been some candidates that have been nominated that have not done well in the General Election stage. Perhaps we need to do a better job working through that to ensure that doesn’t happen in the future but I also think we have to be very careful that we’re not discouraging grassroots types candidates from running because often times they get elected and do a pretty good job.

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Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure. However you say – WHAT THE – what does this mean… in relation to the tabulation whereby we must once again realize that the great political fiction story is now being rehearsed before our very eyes, in the domination of Karl Rove… indicating that only a former Bush operative can receive..the award for political fiction, unlike others whose political fiction doesn’t hold water. Comrades – friends, we are gathered here not only to accept on behalf of one man who without a single principle in his body – has found that the world in itself seems to be in a time of the toad. This in itself is an edifice of the great glory that has gone beyond, and the intuitive feeling of the American people, based on the assumption that the intelligence not only as Mencken once said, “He who underestimates the American pubic will not go broke.” This is merely a small indication of this vast throng gathered here to once again behold and to perceive that which has gone behind and to that which might go forward into the future…we’ve got to hurdle these obstacles. This is the main deterrent upon which we have gathered our strength and all the others who say, “What the hell did that get?” – We don’t know. We’ve got to perforce support Karl Rove in his political leadership… And as Miller once said in one of his great novels- what did he … that language is only necessary when communication is endangered. And you sit there bewildered, and Pinter who went further said “It is not the lack of communication but fear of communication.” That’s what the damn thing is it’s we fear – communication – especially political communication. Oh – fortunately the prize has only been given to consultants – unlike the Academy Award which is given to a female and a male, indicating the derision of the human species – Damn it! But we have no paranoia, and Mr. Rove has attained, and has created for himself serenity, and it is only the insanity that has kept him alive in his paranoia. We speak of the organ…of the orgasm…Who the hell wrote this? And the jury has determined to give the prize to Karl Rove for his THE DEVOLUTION AND COMING EXTINCTION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Now THE DEVOLUTION AND COMING EXTINCTION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. is a token of this man’s great genius…he told me so himself…that he could…in other words, have been more specific, but rather than to allude to the mundane, he has come to the conclusion that brevity of life of the Republican party is the importance of our shallow existence. God damn! Ladies and Gentlemen. To the distinguished panel on the, on the dais and to the other winners, for poetry and religion and science. The time will come when America will outlive its usefulness. Marx, either Groucho or Karl, I can’t remember which, once said that America is the opiate of the people. I say that when America outlives its usefulness, then opium…will be the opiate…Ahh that’s not a bad idea… we are going to need that and a a lot more … All right…However, I want to thank Mr. Pundit , Mr Allah Pundit of the HotGas Press, who has made it possible for you people to be here this evening to enjoy the Political Friction Citation – the Political Fiction Citation. THE DEVOLUTION AND COMING EXTINCTION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY – a small contribution to a certain degree, since there are over seven billion people in the world today. 315 … million live in the United States which is a very, very small amount compared to those who will be dying elsewhere…Well, I say that you will be on the road to new horizons, for we who live in a society where sex is a commodity and a politician can become a TV personality and a quack can become a highly paid consultant, it’s not easy to conform if you have any morality…I, I, I said that myself many years ago…But I do want to thank the bureau…I mean the RNC committee, the organization for the $1,000 they’ve given out for campaign adsl…tonight they made over $4,000,000 in contributions and I think that I have another appointment. I would like to stay here, but for the sake of brevity I, I must leave. I do want to thank you, I want to thank Mr. Allah Pundit. I want to thank Mr. Morrisey, who just ran through the auditorium and out a fire exit into the street, and most of all I want to thank Karl Rove – acting President of the Republican party – and also I want to thank Professor Irwin Corey and thank you.

Rubio made a nuanced statement, and I agree completely. As long as Rove tries to take out the deadbeats like Akin and his ilk, thats fine. But if this is primarily against tea party, its a big mistake. Lets see what tomorrow brings.